Margaret Heffernan Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don't know one another and have spent no time hanging around the water cooler.”

“Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.”

“Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.”

“The healthiest companies are always characterized by organic talent development.”

“A great advantage of a large corporation is supposed to be the large pool of talent in which its leaders can find and groom high achievers and successors.”

“Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.”

“Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.”

“I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.”

“On overnight flights, I have trained myself to get to sleep almost instantly after takeoff. I always listen to the same audiobook on my iPod so my brain knows, regardless of time zone, that that voice means it's time for bed.”

“Companies are bought for their revenue, customer base, technology, or people. A few great companies offer all of these, but any valuable business offers one.”